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IT SHOULD now come as no surprise that house prices go down as well as up. A new analysis of housing transactions in England and Wales shows how important timing is to whether that translates into a profit or loss. Castle Trust, a provider of innovative housing-related financial products, identified approximately 6m properties that were sold more than once between 1995 and the end of 2012. There are big regional variations but if you bought a home before 2003, the chances of making a loss on sale were virtually zero. If you timed it just wrong and bought at the peak of the market in 2007, a subsequent sale was very likely to result in a loss.

Is that in English? Don't persons transact in English? Is what you mean to say "properties that have been sold" or "properties that have been bought"? You only need to specify one of either bought or sold, because you can't have one without the other.